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Body Size: The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems Ecologists have long struggled to predict features of ecological sys ...

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Body Size The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems Edited by ALAN G. HILDREW School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, ...

CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The ...

Contents List of contributors pagevii Preface ix 1 The metabolic theory of ecology and the role of body size in marine and fresh ...

11 Body size and diversity in marine systems Richard M. Warwick 210 12 Interplay between individual growth and population feedba ...

Contributors Andrew P. Allen National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA. David Atkinson ...

Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0206, USA. Simon Jennings Centre for Environment, Fisheries and ...

Preface More than ten years ago, two of us (AGH and DGR) were lucky enough to edit a previous symposium of the British Ecologica ...

with one or more of these themes and in many cases attempt to integrate aspects of body-size research that were previously treat ...

Hardy, A. C. (1924). The herring in relation to its animate environment. Part 1. The food and feeding habits of the herring with ...

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CHAPTER ONE The metabolic theory of ecology and the role of body size in marine and freshwater ecosystems JAMES H.BROWN Universi ...

exponents are due to the fractal-like design of the networks and surfaces that supply energy and materials used by cells in biol ...

MTE provides a conceptual framework for understanding the diverse effects of body size in aquatic ecosystems (see also Peters, 1 ...

normalization constants and sometimes for the exponents, e.g. 3/4 for whole- organism metabolic rate (Eq. (1.2)). In aquatic eco ...

body plan, stoichiometry, as well as acclimatization, acclimation and adapta- tion to different environmental conditions. The me ...

variation in the temperature-correcteddata. Interestingly,for ontogenetic growth rates of adult zooplankton, Gilloolyet al.(2002 ...